A. The conviction and punishment of any person for transacting any business, show, exhibition or game without a registration certificate shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of any fee due or unpaid at the time of such conviction, and nothing in this Article shall prevent a criminal prosecution for any violation of the provisions of this Article.
B If and in the event of a failure of a person, firm or corporation conducting, managing, or carrying on a business to secure a registration certificate and pay the fee therefore as provided in thisArticle, or in the event that a prohibited transient merchant is discovered, then the business inspector of the City is authorized to seize and take into his or her possession the items to be sold and to hold the same until such fees have been paid and a certificate duly issued and properly displayed, or in the case of a transient merchant, to hold the same until claimed by a responsible party against whom legal action can be taken, whereupon the inspector shall release the items confiscated.
(Ord. MC-817, 1-07-92; Ord. MC-743, 10-08-90)